That's your experience and being so is perfectly valid for you. My recent experience was instal Ubuntu, click on a link to "easy ubuntu" - http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/ and use t he GUI interface to select and install all the things you mentioned. It was very easy.
Now compare this to a couple of recent experiences I had on windows - one was trying to burn a cd of photographs and the other was trying to get photographs off a digital camera onto a laptop. I couldn't work out how to do either. Never been a problem in Linux, it just, well, happens. This sort of little niggly thing is becoming more and more frequement when I am forced to use Windows.
So I conclude that Windows is way too hard and will not work for the average user. QED.
I think this a slight misinterpretation of the GPL. All the 1st agency needs to do is release the code to the recipient of the software, under the terms of the GPL. If the recipient has no interest in distribution then the code stops there.
I can only hope the people of New Zealand did not pay for it.
We did. It is published by the State Services Commission, basically an uber-Government agency which overseas and advises other Government agencies on all sorts of issues, including IT. Hence the beef.
Well, the summary is lifted from the "actual document" and the document is, if possible worse. Obviously it cannot spend the whole time slagging of OSS, that just isn't a position that can be maintained these days. But where is the analysis that backs up the following statements:
"it brings a number of risks not associated with propriertory or commercial software...include risk of exposure to faults"
and
the GPL can "infect" "programs that communicate with open source applications"
and they are very misleading about agencies that "want to keep some software strictly confidential" suggesting that if someone "inadvertently disclosed a copy of the "infected" software there would be an implied licence for its use...Come on this is Copyright we are talking about.
Dig deap into the document and you will find all sorts of muddying statements that do nothing to clarify OSS or its real risks vis-a-vis commercial / proprietory software. Actually, it is worse than that because it would point to the only "safe" software being that provided by large coprorates with mighty patent portfolios. So goodby to local efforst.
But what annoys thing is that me most is that as a tax payer I have had to cough up for such bad advice and as an OSS business I now need to put time and effort into countering tax payer funded FUD. I can take it from MS and SCO but not from this source.
Currently in NZ we are looking at this approach. Basically combining an ENUM implementation with a Universal Communications Identifier (UCI) and personal proxy (PUA) for handling all IP and PSTN communications. Note, it can apply to all IP comms, not just voice.
Could have a profound impact on spam from a technoliogical *and* economic perspective. Does not require the degree of co-operation of other spam "solutions".
The feasibility study, which our company was commissioned to undertake is worth downloading if you are interested.
Hehe. I love that stuff. From the link "That's a marvellous bit of engineering. So is the fact that birds, unlike us, have hollow bones."
Last night as I chomped away on my lamb chop I noticed that the bone in the middle was - fanfare - hollow. Ok, I am the first to admit that lambs are not humans - even if the Lamb of God did once take human form.
Despite their hollow bones I have never observed lambs fly, not even Monty Python's dangerously clever sheep achived this.
So, from my observation that hollow bones are not limited to birds and that we are indeed blessed with hollowness I propose the theory that everything else Dr McIntosh proposes is utterly devoid of truth.
BTW today is world wide "Shooting Ducks in a Barrel" day.
Well, check out their respective revenues and profit margins. Only monopoloies make the sort of money Microsoft do, and the have to be using the monopolistic position to do so. I conclude from these figures that:
Microsoft is a monopoly IBM is not.
This is unhealthy for our economies as it points to a huge waste of resources being spent on someone's software.
I really don't buy into the "own fault" argument these days. All the things you mention are hard for home users to set up and even when set up prone to compromise. Keeping up with patches is near impossible on dial-up connection not that much better with broadband. Chances are they will be attacked and compromised as they are connecting to the Internet during initial configuration phases to run updates and registration processes. All much easier to do in your environment than for your typical home user.
Your sample size is irrelevent to my comment as it points to a completely different operational evironment.
Backing up your two comments is the observation that all the members of my family using XP to connect to the Internet have/are experiencing constant problems where their machines have been hijacked by various spyware/virus/trojan applications. To the point where communicating with them over the Internet is becoming increasingly impossible. If there is one thing that will drive them to alternatives it is the desire to have their email "back".
No troll button today so I'll bite instead. The assumption, that you are (deliberatley?) misinterpreting, is really that if MS didn't *abuse* its monopolistic position *illegally* the software industry would be much more diverse and consumers would have a much greater choice of products.
Precisely. Many/. posters (and mods, obviously) seem blind to Apple morals & srupples and history of business fuck-ups. Lava lamp mentality, I'm guessing.
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"5. Most aussies don't winge about problems. They sort them."
:-)
You obviously haven't read about your league boys recently, even winning they're winging
Totally, THe most telling sentence in the article:
"it seems like Microsoft is building some of the most ambitious security components of Windows Vista not for its customers, but for itself."
No shit, Sherlock.
That's your experience and being so is perfectly valid for you. My recent experience was instal Ubuntu, click on a link to "easy ubuntu" - http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/ and use t he GUI interface to select and install all the things you mentioned. It was very easy.
Now compare this to a couple of recent experiences I had on windows - one was trying to burn a cd of photographs and the other was trying to get photographs off a digital camera onto a laptop. I couldn't work out how to do either. Never been a problem in Linux, it just, well, happens. This sort of little niggly thing is becoming more and more frequement when I am forced to use Windows.
So I conclude that Windows is way too hard and will not work for the average user. QED.
I think this a slight misinterpretation of the GPL. All the 1st agency needs to do is release the code to the recipient of the software, under the terms of the GPL. If the recipient has no interest in distribution then the code stops there.
I can only hope the people of New Zealand did not pay for it.
We did. It is published by the State Services Commission, basically an uber-Government agency which overseas and advises other Government agencies on all sorts of issues, including IT. Hence the beef.
Well, the summary is lifted from the "actual document" and the document is, if possible worse. Obviously it cannot spend the whole time slagging of OSS, that just isn't a position that can be maintained these days. But where is the analysis that backs up the following statements:
"it brings a number of risks not associated with propriertory or commercial software...include risk of exposure to faults"
and
the GPL can "infect" "programs that communicate with open source applications"
and they are very misleading about agencies that "want to keep some software strictly confidential" suggesting that if someone "inadvertently disclosed a copy of the "infected" software there would be an implied licence for its use...Come on this is Copyright we are talking about.
Dig deap into the document and you will find all sorts of muddying statements that do nothing to clarify OSS or its real risks vis-a-vis commercial / proprietory software. Actually, it is worse than that because it would point to the only "safe" software being that provided by large coprorates with mighty patent portfolios. So goodby to local efforst.
But what annoys thing is that me most is that as a tax payer I have had to cough up for such bad advice and as an OSS business I now need to put time and effort into countering tax payer funded FUD. I can take it from MS and SCO but not from this source.
I'd mod you up but this new AJAX interfac /. has adopted seems quite buggy ATM
Sometimes my day gets lightened by a /. comment. All too rare nowadays but the effect is magnified by its isolation.
In short, thanks...
Great post. How long did that take!
Currently in NZ we are looking at this approach. Basically combining an ENUM implementation with a Universal Communications Identifier (UCI) and personal proxy (PUA) for handling all IP and PSTN communications. Note, it can apply to all IP comms, not just voice.
Could have a profound impact on spam from a technoliogical *and* economic perspective. Does not require the degree of co-operation of other spam "solutions".
The feasibility study, which our company was commissioned to undertake is worth downloading if you are interested.
Maybe its urban legend, but I remember it as:
A PC on every desk."
I still think that is one of the best mission statements ever, more for what it didn't say, and have even ripped it off (ever so slightly).
Hehe. I love that stuff. From the link "That's a marvellous bit of engineering. So is the fact that birds, unlike us, have hollow bones."
Last night as I chomped away on my lamb chop I noticed that the bone in the middle was - fanfare - hollow. Ok, I am the first to admit that lambs are not humans - even if the Lamb of God did once take human form.
Despite their hollow bones I have never observed lambs fly, not even Monty Python's dangerously clever sheep achived this.
So, from my observation that hollow bones are not limited to birds and that we are indeed blessed with hollowness I propose the theory that everything else Dr McIntosh proposes is utterly devoid of truth.
BTW today is world wide "Shooting Ducks in a Barrel" day.
final nail in the coffin of ID.. give me a break
Too right. That sucker was buried years ago. What we are seeing now are zombies.
Venus. Not a star but ubiqutous in terms of visbilty from most latitudes...
Oh, right then. I stand corrected, thanks.
Well, check out their respective revenues and profit margins. Only monopoloies make the sort of money Microsoft do, and the have to be using the monopolistic position to do so. I conclude from these figures that:
Microsoft is a monopoly
IBM is not.
This is unhealthy for our economies as it points to a huge waste of resources being spent on someone's software.
I really don't buy into the "own fault" argument these days. All the things you mention are hard for home users to set up and even when set up prone to compromise. Keeping up with patches is near impossible on dial-up connection not that much better with broadband. Chances are they will be attacked and compromised as they are connecting to the Internet during initial configuration phases to run updates and registration processes. All much easier to do in your environment than for your typical home user.
Your sample size is irrelevent to my comment as it points to a completely different operational evironment.
Backing up your two comments is the observation that all the members of my family using XP to connect to the Internet have/are experiencing constant problems where their machines have been hijacked by various spyware/virus/trojan applications. To the point where communicating with them over the Internet is becoming increasingly impossible. If there is one thing that will drive them to alternatives it is the desire to have their email "back".
Christ, an omniscient anonymouse, who'da thunk it?
The setup wizard asked for little more than the time zone and my Passport account
I stopped reading (and purchasing) at this point...
You miss the point. These are not ringtones. They are for phones that double up as music players.
Not to say your hypothesis is incorrect, simply misplaced.
Would you prefer they not talk about it?
Well, given that they have patented it - yes. If they do we cannot use ignorance as a defence (which it is, kind of, in patent violation disputes).
So, count me as one who finds it hard to spot their "favour".
To comment or moderate, that is the question...
I won't tell you again, don't use arrays.
Let me see if I can put it another way,
Arrays are bad.
it writes the underlying SQL necessary to give the user the answer they want.
Wow, revolutionary stuff, generating answers I want...and SQL statements! I'll bet corporate DBAs will just love it to bits.
No troll button today so I'll bite instead. The assumption, that you are (deliberatley?) misinterpreting, is really that if MS didn't *abuse* its monopolistic position *illegally* the software industry would be much more diverse and consumers would have a much greater choice of products.
That seems to me to be a pretty valid position.
Precisely. Many /. posters (and mods, obviously) seem blind to Apple morals & srupples and history of business fuck-ups. Lava lamp mentality, I'm guessing.